Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
Weissman shared the prize with Katalin Kariko, his Hungarian-born research partner at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Fast Forward Man in Peru charged with making recent bomb threats to US synagogues, FBI says
The charges related to 150 threats in just one week in September, only a portion of those synagogues have received
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Fast Forward Elon Musk to join Ben Shapiro and other Jewish men for live chat on antisemitism and free speech
Ten Jewish men, Musk 'and a Hava Nagila sing-off!' — per Musk’s tweet — are on the lineup
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Fast Forward A kosher ‘kind of Chinese’ restaurant in New Jersey lands on NYT’s 2023 list of eateries ‘we’re most excited about’
Fat Choy stands out as the only eatery with kosher certification to win the distinction
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Fast Forward Bomb threats target US synagogues during Rosh Hashanah, but few interruptions reported
In a handful of cases, services were evacuated or delayed because of the threats, which were all deemed not credible
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Fast Forward Moroccan Jews and Israelis reportedly all safe in devastating quake that killed at least 2,100
The quake came on the eve of a Jewish pilgrimage and during the local harvest season for etrogs, used in the observance of Sukkot
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Fast Forward Ishay Ribo, Orthodox Israeli pop star, delivers rock concert-religious revival mashup at Madison Square Garden
'It’s beautiful to be in the room singing along to songs about what it means to be a Jew,' one attendee said
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Fast Forward Netanyahu orders crackdown on migrants after unrest involving Eritrean asylum seekers in Tel Aviv
There are an estimated 30,000 African asylum seekers in Israel. Most came before 2012 from Eritrea, where a repressive regime has been in place for 30 years
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